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Is the Amazon a river or an ocean?

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Is The Amazon River in South America, the second longest river in the world and by far the largest by waterflow with an average discharge greater than the next seven largest rivers combined an instance of the class river (a large natural flowing waterway) or the class ocean (a very large scale expanse of saline water, larger than a sea)?
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Amazon River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If the Pará river and the Marajó island ocean frontage are included, the Amazon estuary is some 325 kilometres (202 mi) wide. In this case, the width of the mouth of the river is ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Amazon
The Amazon River
Each year the Amazon River empties tons of solid particles into the Ocean. This contains lots of fish food. The Amazon is the widest river in the world.
http://www.freshwateraquariumplants.com/amazonbiotope/amazonriverfacts.html
Amazon River - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Brazilians call the Amazon the "River Sea." The Amazon is navigable from the ocean to Peru. Ocean ships can travel on the Amazon all the way across Brazil, and most of South ...
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River
Amazon River - Overview of the Amazon River
Due to the vast amount of water as well as sediment that are deposited where the Amazon River meets the Atlantic Ocean, the color and salinity of the Atlantic Ocean are ...
http://geography.about.com/od/specificplacesofinterest/a/amazonriver8.htm
Amazon River in the Atlantic Ocean : Image of the Day
Large images: Chlorophyll (2.0 MB) Natural Color (2.7 MB) Tiny streams trickle down the east side of the glacier-clad peaks of the Andes, converging in a series of small rivers.
http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7021

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